Costs of Alcohol Use and Misuse in Scotland

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Appendix A

Table A: summary of NHS cost attributable to alcohol misuse 2006/07

Resource Category

Cost 2006/07 (£million)

GP/practice consultations

12

GP prescribed drugs

0.77

GP initiated lab tests

0.84

Hospitalisation days (acute)

146

Hospitalisation days (psychiatric)

89

A&E attendances

32

Outpatient appts

64

Community psychiatric service

13

Day hospital

3

Ambulance

32

Health improvement/specific funding

13

Total

405

Table B: summary of social work cost attributable to alcohol misuse 2006/07

Resource Category

Cost 2006/07 (£million)

Children's Hearings ( SCRA)

2

Social work :

Children's hearings

0.3

Children & families

153

Substance misuse

11

Community care

2

Criminal justice

33

total

169

Table C: summary of criminal justice & emergency services cost attributable to alcohol misuse 2006/07

Resource Category

Cost 2006/07 (£million)

Police time

288

Court and legal costs associated with prosecutions

19

Custodial sentences

78

Fire service

6

Total

385

Table D: summary of "economic" cost attributable to alcohol misuse 2006/07

Resource Category

Cost 2006/07 (£million)

Presenteeism

203

Absenteeism

190

Unemployment

96

Premature death

328

Total

818

Table E: summary of human cost attributable to alcohol misuse 2006/07

Resource Category

Cost 2006/07 (£million)

Consequences of crime

145

Homicide

51

Deaths in fires

23

Excess mortality

248

Total

466

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